As you might have noticed, the AP team is pretty fond of Pushbullet. It's an awesome service that keeps your devices linked up and in sync like nothing else. If you've paid attention over the past few weeks, you may have also noticed that our sidebar has gained a pretty big heap of new buttons.

Right under all the other ways you can follow AP, we've added a stack of Pushbullet subscription options that will allow you to subscribe to our posts either all at once, or per category. You can probably see the buttons right next to this post, but just in case, here's a screenshot.

This is more or less selective RSS with a unified network for notification (basically anywhere you have pushbullet).

dextersgenius

I'm a Pushbullet fan as well, but playing the devils advocate here - you could have selected RSS feeds too - a lot of sites do - and if you use Feedly, which is available on all platforms, everything will be in sync.

I agree that RSS is much better for news consumption, but if you're hanging on the edge of your seat for the latest news, Pushbullet channels seem like a good complimentary service.

dextersgenius

True, I forgot the "push" part of PushBullet, that's a big advantage over RSS. :)

Simon JB

I also wonder why RSS is getting abandoned in favour of proprietary solutions such as PushBullet or even Twitter. At least android police still uses it (it's just on the right) but increasingly blogs seem to forgo RSS altogether.

Why ? It is open, it's a standard, and it's frankly not that difficult to use (if you manage to understand how twitter works, obviously RSS should be a piece of cake).
I guess it's nice to have options. But I'd rather see Mozilla, Google and others work on upgrading the RSS standard to allow for "push" updates across the web. Won't happen though, when we see what they did with Google Reader...

I'm an RSS fan, but in this case, I follow the Pushbullter APK notifications because I want to get APK stuff on my phone, while I do most of my RSS reading on a desktop.

abobobilly

Pushbullet can let me know via a "NOTIFICATION" about new APKs posted or new articles. Can RSS Feed do that?

Both services are better, and a must have. But i have grown fond of Pushbullet.

WTC

RSS can If they do

abobobilly

Which app on android (and Windows 8.1 Desktop) would you prefer for RSSFeed? Its been a while since i have used Feedly (or Google Current; now News Stand). Would you mention the same, or any other?

asdf

I like gReader and as a second FeedMe

Simon JB

Greader (pro) is all around the best RSS app you could find. Great interface, full offline support (it downloads the whole "minified" page, in case the rss feed is truncated), nearly every functionnality you could think of. And it's well maintained and often updated.

If you don't need offline support nor advanced notifications, feedly is also nice.

dawqerf

TIME TO REDUCE WIDGETS ON THE DESKTOP SITE #SOONBACKANSWER #FOREVERLOADING

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If you haven't noticed, this is pushing Chrome to the maximum memory/process use of any tab someone would have open. Good ideas require both good coding and good testing. Offer a "no thanks" option, or you'll go in the waste bin along with Android Central and their horrible print magazine formatting and poisonous comment threads.

abobobilly

Then don't use Chrome's extension.

On a Windows desktop, you can use the Desktop App for Windows.

Its not like "pushbullet" is the reason for pushing chrome's memory to boundaries. Its Chrome itself, which isn't any less 'memory efficient'.

Thanks, this is better than email sub. Email is already cluster _____ with spams.

Mr. S

Is there a channel to be notified when the AP redesign launches?

GreatNews

How about Android Police CES2015 Pushbullet Channel?

SebastianHelset

Since this seems to be the place where we discuss the website: Are there any plans on making AP Material? That would be so cool!

erz2192

I would love a "APK Teardowns" channel if that is possible. Those are my favorite things on the site. I have a IFTTT recipe, but would love the dedicated Pushbullet channel.

rssUser

I already use RSS and that isn't changing anytime soon, but I guess it is a good time to ask androidpolice to not cut in half their feeds, it's really a shame I can't load the full articles from my rss